Chapter 229 The Strong Ones

He was very surprised.

There were many points of surprise.

The score was secondary.

Mainly, why would Shi Yi associate with someone like this, even to the point of becoming a friend he would protect even against the principal?

Zhang Jianjun carefully analyzed Chen Yuan's grades. The reason he ruled out cheating was because his score improvement was very scientific.

It wasn't a comprehensive improvement.

Rather, two out of the six subjects suddenly became much higher, leading to a total score increase of 111.

This was in line with the law of progress.

Because the best way to improve scores is to first tackle particularly weak areas and subjects that are easy to improve.

Chen Yuan's particularly weak area was English.

But this time, his English had improved to 132 points, an exceptionally excellent score.

Mathematics was 141, and that was half a month ago. By the time he participated in the second round of the math competition, it was estimated that he had already reached a perfect score.

What was frightening was that his potential for improvement was still very large.

A person with extraordinary mathematical talent, who could be called a genius, would inevitably rise in the science subjects.

And English, the most subtle subject for this kind of science monster, was no longer a weakness.

This person had unlimited potential.

If his progress was still so terrifying in the next week's Seven School Joint Exam, improving by more than thirty points again in a month…

It was only a matter of time before he became one of the top five in Eleventh High School.

It was also only a matter of time before he became a threat to Shi Yi.

Why?

Why was the progress suddenly so great?

What was the trigger?

Suddenly, Zhang Jianjun thought of the girl from his school.

Dating will inevitably affect learning, that is for sure.

But it's not necessarily all negative.

Maybe he decided to improve 'later' in order to go to the same university as the girl from his school, and then found that learning was not complicated for him, and suddenly rushed up?

So, not only was the girl from our school led into early love by a boy from Eleventh High School, but she also became the trigger for his academic progress?

Thinking of this, Zhang Jianjun was annoyed.

He directly twisted the cigarette in the ashtray a few times to extinguish it.

"No, that girl's face is so familiar… so familiar."

Zhang Jianjun suddenly realized that he had not only met these two on the street outside Fourth High School, but had also seen her somewhere else.

Zhang Jianjun was a very powerful academic during high school and university, a top student in the top five of the entire district in the college entrance examination. His memory was very good, and he quickly recalled.

He clicked on the school's official website.

The mouse scrolled down.

Then, he found a promotional video that the school had spent money to shoot.

In this video, which lasted several minutes, a student appeared for more than ten seconds.

Pause.

When that face faced the camera head-on, Zhang Jianjun completely remembered.

And those who can appear in promotional videos are at least students with 985-level scores, which means…

Chen Yuan, you also tricked a good student from our school, didn't you?!

………

Fourth High School Cafeteria.

Xia Xinyu was eating with her aunt.

"That, it should be out, right?" Xia Xinyu tentatively asked.

"Yeah, that's out. I haven't had time to look at it. Let's see."

Because Xia Fang had been teaching all the time, she didn't have time to use her mobile phone, so when she received it, it was already several tables with scores and rankings.

Logically speaking, she should first pay attention to the students in her class.

But after all, there was always light in her niece's eyes. She, who loved to eat and had a good appetite, was a little perfunctory in her eating today, so she first satisfied Xia Xinyu and clicked on the ranking of the first test.

Then, she saw Chen Yuan at a glance.

No, this is the city's ranking!

Xia Fang thought she was seeing things, but no matter how she looked at it, the two characters were indeed Chen Yuan.

115?!

He can score 115 on this kind of question?!

Xia Fang's eyes widened, and she was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

Xia Xinyu, on the other hand, seemed to know it beforehand. The angle of surprise was particularly one-sided. Covering her mouth, she said happily, "Great, ten points added."

Is this just a matter of ten points being added?!

This is 115 points, top five in the city!!

Xia Fang carefully confirmed again, but both the school and the name matched.

Then, she deliberately flipped down and slid down to find the students in her class, but they were already outside the top 100.

She had previously wondered when the gap between Chen Yuan and the top students in her class would narrow a bit.

But now she found that Chen Yuan's opponents were not the students in her class who barely won awards.

Above him was Shi Yi.

In parallel was Niu Zhihao.

In other words, Chen Yuan's math level, in Fourth High School, was second only to one person!

"Xinyu." Xia Fang was really a little scared. She felt that her niece was dating an especially monstrous person. Turning her head, she asked seriously, "Chen Yuan, is he especially smart?"

She wanted to know if this person was a genius.

Ordinary smart is different from genius.

There are also smart people who don't study at all and then their grades suddenly increase.

But there is still a big gap between them and geniuses.

A true genius is someone who originally possessed a high level of intelligence. After mastering the basic framework of a certain discipline, they can diverge infinitely.

The expression is that, on a certain type of question, when others are thinking about how to calculate it, he is thinking about which method can be more efficient.

Merely being able to do it is a test-taking machine.

Only being able to solve a problem in multiple ways can one become a mathematician.

Since her aunt asked this, Xia Xinyu also frankly and sincerely said, "Chen Yuan is especially smart. Although I have been teaching him how to do problems, as long as he is taught, he can quickly surpass me."

"Then I understand." Xia Fang finally discovered a secret, like those people.

That is—Chen Yuan hadn't studied at all before.

So after he started learning, he would learn very, very quickly, like a sudden enlightenment.

"Aunt." Xia Xinyu looked at Xia Fang and said, "Chen Yuan, he will soon surpass me a lot, so I'm wondering…"

"Whether the plan to go to the same university can still be realized, right?"

"When he is in the third year of high school, his grades at that time may be enough to go to those two in Ji Jing. But, I can't…" Xia Xinyu had a clear understanding of herself.

She was already very smart, the ceiling among ordinary children.

But there was no way, there are also differences in intelligence.

"You can do it too. You are great," Xia Fang said comfortingly.

"Yeah… but I'm just afraid it won't work." Xia Xinyu said somewhat dejectedly, "He was working hard to catch up with me before. But now, his mentality has changed. Learning has become an interest and an ambition. Will there be some… small problems between us because the gap between us is too big?"

Being dumped is a bit of an exaggeration.